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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.
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Stupidity gets up early that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.
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Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
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Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.
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A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.
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To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
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The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.
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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
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If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
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When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
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A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
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A good stylist should have narcissistic enjoyment as he works. He must be able to objectivize his work to such an extent that he catches himself feeling envious and has to jog his memory to find that he is himself the creator. In short, he must display that highest degree of objectivity which the world calls vanity.
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Satire chooses and knows no objects. It arises by fleeing from them and their forcing themselves upon it.
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In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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